Philip: 4665 books
Serving the Reich
The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
After World War II, most scientists in Germany maintained that they had been apolitical or actively resisted the Nazi regime, but the true story is much more complicated. In Serving the Reich, Philip Ball takes a fresh look at that controversial history, contrasting the career of Peter Debye, director...
More and Different
Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Named a Top Five Book of 2012 by Physics Today, USA.
Philip Anderson was educated at University High School in Urbana, Illinois, at Harvard (BS 1943, PhD 1949), and further educated at Bell Laboratories, where his career (1949-1984) coincided with the greatest period of that remarkable institution....
Beyond Weird
Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
“Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.”
Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it’s not really telling us that “weird” things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the...
Dream Finder
Discovering the Divine Through Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
It's a sensible enough notion that our unconscious would contain valuable insights, given that all we experience is stored there. Yet the idea of accessing those insights can be an elusive one, and until now, the subject usually has been discussed in abstract terms. Dream Finder pioneers a more concrete,...
by Philip Rousseau
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Charting the first six hundred years of the Christian movement, THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CENTURIES carries the reader from the world of second-temple Judaism to the Byzantine age, the rise of Islam, and the beginnings of medieval European polities.With a combination of rare tact and acuity, Philip Rousseau...
Secret Societies
Revelations About the Freemasons, Templars, Illuminati, Nazis, and the Serpent Cults
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
With his recent best-selling books and hundreds of articles, as well as radio and TV appearances, Philip Gardiner has started a crusade for uncovering the truth, and nothing could be more indicative of that search than his latest foray into the dark and often sinister world of secret societies. Yet...
by Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Through experiments to try and places to visit, as well as a historical exploration of magic and interviews with leading magicians, The Book of English Magic will introduce you to the extraordinary world that lies beneath the surface. Magic runs through the veins of English history, part of daily...
A Drinkable Feast
A Cocktail Companion to 1920s Paris
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
A history of the Lost Generation in 1920s Paris told through the lens of the cocktails they loved
In the Prohibition era, American cocktail enthusiasts flocked to the one place that would have them--Paris. In this sweeping look at the City of Light, cocktail historian Philip Greene follows...
Exploring World Englishes
Language in a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning postgraduate studies, or taking an introductory MA course as well as advanced undergraduates. Titles in the series are...
The 13th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®
26 Great SF Stories!
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The 13th Science Fiction MEGAPACK® continues the bestselling anthology series, presenting modern and classic works of speculative fiction. This edition features an interview with author Robert J. Sawyer plus 26 great stories! Included are: SARGASSO OF LOST STARSHIPS, by Poul Anderson THE DAY IS DONE,...
The Devil
A New Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
"Although the Devil still 'lives' in modern popular culture, for the past 250 years he has become marginal to the dominant concerns of Western intellectual thought. That life could not be thought or imagined without him, that he was a part of the everyday, continually present in nature and history,...
England's First Demonologist
Reginald Scot and 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft'
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
The fables of witchcraft have taken so fast hold and deepe root in the heart of man, that few or none can indure with patience the hand and correction of God.' Reginald Scot, whose words these are, published his remarkable book The Discoverie of Witchcraft in 1584. England's first major work of demonology,...
by Philip Butterworth
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
How was medieval English theatre performed? Many of the modern theatrical concepts and terms used today to discuss the nature of medieval English theatre were never used in medieval times. Concepts and terms such as character, characterisation, truth and belief, costume, acting style, amateur, professional,...
by Philip Schaff
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Creeds of Christendom: Volume 1 The History of Creeds is a massive work by Philip Schaff, and is the first in a three volume set.